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Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today.
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Google & Life Together
Search millions of historic photos by subject or decade:http://images.google.com/hosted/life
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today.
Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
Search tip
Add "source:life" to any Google image search and search only the LIFE photo archive. For example: computer source:life
Smithsonian via Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/U.S. Government Sites
Inauguration
Website links for the 2009 U.S. Presidential Inaugurationof Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America: provided by Judy Serritella, Ed.S., Coordinator of Library Media Services, Standards, Instruction, and Assessment, Georgia Department of Education:
Library of Congress
http://www.memory.loc.gov/learn/features/inaug/inaug.html__
C-Span Resources (includes high/middle school worksheet)
http://www.c-span.org/classroom/govt/inauguration.asp
Teacher Vision (includes lesson plan on inaugural poetry)
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/elections/teacher-resources/6615.html
We Must Not Be Enemies: Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=246
Great Presidential Inauguration Websites
http://www.ourwhitehouse.org/greatinaugsites.html
http://inaugural.senate.gov/history/daysevents/index.cfm__
This is a nice set of slides that covers the 9 major events of the day. The other links on the page are helpful for a more in-depth study. Lots of interesting 'firsts.'
__http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=5768__
This is a first hand report from a young student, now a teen, of his first inaugural experience. Nice viewpoint.
__http://techsavvymama.blogspot.com/2009/01/...__
This site lists many resources, video tours of the White House and some reproducible materials.
Gov Watch Sites
Added Value from infodoodads:5 Great Sites to Help You Keep Track of the Government
Stateline
Open Government
Project Votesmart
Change.gov
Open Secrets